Today In World News: November 5, 2017

Today In World News:

Courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk

• When an explosives-rigged car blew up outside the criminal investigation department (CID) building, at least 15 people were killed in Yemen's coastal city of Aden, in an attack claimed by, ISIL the local affiliate of the ISIS group. 

• A gunman massacred at least 26 worshipers and wounded 20 others at a church in southeast Texas. The shooting occurred at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in Wilson County, about 40 miles (65 km) east of San Antonio.

• South Korea imposed unilateral sanctions on 18 North Koreans, barring any financial transactions between those sanctioned and any South Koreans, as part of international efforts to dry up Pyongyang’s illegal cash flows.

• Bribery, embezzlement, money laundering and abuse of power are among the accusations leveled against dozens of Saudi princes, officials and businessmen detained in an anti-corruption probe

• Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group accused Saudi Arabia of forcing Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to quit, and called for calm in an effort to contain the political crisis unleashed by his resignation.

• 2 explosions struck the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killing at least 5 people and wounding more than 20 others

• Ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has turned himself in to Belgian police after an EU-wide arrest warrant was issued.

• Unmarried couples in the East African country of Burundi have until the end of the year to legalize their relationships through church or state registrations.